Sunday, July 24, 2011

Prepare yourself: this is a picture-heavy post. There's a lot of good stuff going on right now, and I've been pretty good at capturing the fleeting moments on my camera. (Of course, for every one picture I take, there are at least a hundred I wish I took. Oh well - can't do it all.)

More than the other seasons, summer is the one where I feel I'm running to keep up, so keenly aware of how fast time passes. Trying, so hard, to soak it up.

Here's what these pictures are of:

The goodness of nail polish, rediscovered after years and years. Food: chocolate banana pancakes with whipped cream and maple syrup. Last year's apple, kept in the cold room, now wrinkly. Chopped local mushrooms and garlic scapes waiting to be fried (to accompany a roast). Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries - I could eat the local, warm, ripe ones for every meal. The community market on a Wednesday. A print by Elise Blaha (whose summer mini-book I am avidly working on, and will share about at a later date). Surf lesson - first one ever. It was harder than I thought to get up on the board, over and over again. But exhilarating when the instructor would help push me onto a wave, and I would attempt to rise from my prone position to my knees while gliding along a rushing wave, all while keeping my balance! Arms were quite sore the next day.

Oh summer. OK. You're here now, you won't be here forever. Let's do our simple part to live in the warmth you give us, as much as we can.

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I'm a 27 year old Canadian woman. I grew up on Cape Breton Island, although my parents and their families are from Quebec and Ohio. Currently I live in Cape Breton, in a small town by the Bras D'Or Lake.

I can make a good soup and tie my own shoes. I've worked as a nanny, a potter's assistant, a shop clerk, and a janitor. I've also worked in a library, and taught computers to seniors. I've travelled to Australia and New Zealand and across Canada by train. I spent two and a half years in university before I left. I like the way the air smells in the Fall.

Since 2002 - this is my blog, a place for me to write about life, what I experience, to share my photography and my writing. I'm glad you're here!